Eric Hoffer Quotes & Quotations

Eric Hoffer Quotes

» The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

» What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?

» When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

» Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

» Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

» How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

» It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.

» The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

» Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

» The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

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